The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1887-11-02
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nell university.
SoME of the extra large cultivated chest
nuts fetch 8 bushel.
A WEATHER bureau for the Northwest
has been established at st. Paul.
ARTIFICIAL ivory is made by injecting
wildwood with chloride of lime.
The average price of new corn through
out Kansas is forty cents per bushel.
In Audrain County, NO., there is base
ball club composed Of nine brothers.
A HINDoo might readily worship the
Western LOCOMOTIVES; it is so like Jugger-
maui.
The koyeo tree, from which the Japan
ESQ paper is made, is rapidly becoming ex-
tinct.
A SOCIETY in Detroit of men sworn not
to swear numbers nearly 1000 persons, it
10 said.
AN Atlantic County IN. j. divine re-
Gently delivered a sermon to an audience
Of one.
AN Omaha bride, en- route to the altar.
split her satin corsage by an ill-timed
sneeze.
An automatic pencil that writes blue,
red, violet and black at command is q late
novelty.
EDIsoN's talking machine, the phono.
graph, has been perfected and will be put
on the market
The bill in the Mexican Congress per.
uniting reelection to the Presidency has
been finally passed.
In this country $4,000 insane persons are
No.. linn
to 100000 annually.
THERE are twenty-one bureaus Of labor
in the United States. Four years ago
there were only seven.
Ara point in deep ravine, two miles
from Wallingford, N. Y, ice, it is said,
forms the year around.
THERE are only two public statues in San
Francisco-one of President Garfield, the
other Of General Halleck.
THE wood-chopper's axe is said to be
rapidly stripping New Hampshire of some
bf its most beautiful scenery.
PHOEBE HICKS, of Petersburg, w. Va,
has married widower with thlrty-one
children. She is his eighth wife.
TuE school slate manufacturers have
putting another tax on education.
A MOVEMENT for Government control
of the telegraph is already taking shape
in the work of the Fiftleth Congress.
AN uptown fancy store in New York
has on private exhibition one Of the dia-
dems worn by the Empress Eugene.
A PROMINENT physician Of Dubuque
thinks the turned-down kerosene lamp is
the prime and common cause of diphtheria.
A FEMALE member of the Coldwater
(Mich.) Salvation Army has worked on
her jersey jacket the words, "No water in
hell"
The word "boodle" has gone into the U
8. language. Eastern newspapers, even
those of Boston, use it without quotation
marks.
IT is asserted that ninety out of every
hundred male children born in Ireland al
present are named after Charles Stuart
Parneli.
SEvEN U. s. Senators spent the summer
In Europe. They we're Palmer, Stock
bridge, Hale, Frye, Spooner, Aldrich and
Hawley.
HENRY A. ROBINSON, a famous dealer in
sporting goods, says that Mexico buys
more pistols than all the United States put
together.
An official list just published shows there
are tkirty-five widows Of revolutionary
soldiers still drawing pensions from the
Government.
ONE of the glaciers of the Kinchiniungs
In India-a peak whose summit is $500
feet above sea level-has a vertical heigh
of 14,OOO feet,
Miss FRANCES E. WILLARD wants all tenn
perance women in the world to observe
November ~ as "a day OF special prayer
for the cause"
A MINNEAPOLIS woman was fined $40 To-
breaking her umbrella over the head of ;
street masher, but the public sent her owe
@0OO to pay the fine with.
THE danger 70 aeronauts in Russia is In
creased by the fact that the peasant!
shoot at them as they come down, suppos
ing them to be evil spirits
THE Michigan maiden who chased q rob
Der with pitchfork and made him drol
his booty, is said to be receiving III
average of fifteen offers of marriage pc
week.
TIE Bankers Convention, recently helt
In Pittsburgh, earnestly urged the exten
sion of the extradition treaty with Grea
Britain SO as to cover emblezzlers and de
faulters.
The name Of new explosive which thu
Russians claim to have discovered is ''lec
tower" Its popularity is that its forct
does not strike upward or downward, bu
forward.
FRosTs all around and snow in New Eng
land the other night warn the country t,
get their heavy clothing and fuel in readi
ness for the time when the billiards begil
business.
JUDGE PAREoN, Of the supreme court o
Pennsylvania, said, in late decision, tina
aman who can not or does not read tn
newspapers is not properly qualified +
serve rs juror.
ARs. Louisa TURNBuRKE, of Washington
claims that her father was brother o
William O'Brien, the late California be
nanxa king. OF his estate sa,OOo, 600 is il
doubt and she will lay claim to it.
LIEUTENANT WILLIAM H. SoHUErzE's re
port of his mission to the Lena Delta, re
cords $3.50 degrees below zero, the temper
ature he experienced at verchoyansk
Northern Siberia, as the lowest ever OF
served.
The Indian Prince Waharjah Sir Waghi
ordered s25O,0N worth of goods in Ney
York recently. He made his purchases i
this country instead of his natural ma,
ket, England, because he thinks the good